President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday sided with key supporter and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk in a public dispute over the use of the H-1B visa, saying he fully backs the program for foreign tech workers opposed by some of his supporters.

Lest anyone thought the Elon Musk and Donald Trump collaboration would be smooth sailing for everyone involved, the world's richest man and cowboy space CEO is now directing his social media curse words at members of the pro-Trump far-right.

President-elect says he has always liked H-1B visas, despite moving to restrict them in first term in office, as ‘America First’ rages against immigration

The world's wealthiest tycoon wants more visas for engineering talent, but conservatives including RFK Jr. vice-presidential pick are savaging the H-1B program as predatory.

Musk, the owner of car manufacturer Tesla and social media platform X, has been tapped by Trump to lead the proposed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, after vocally supporting and financially backing his campaign for president.

Elon Musk’s war on MAGA has quickly gone nuclear after the billionaire CEO blasted a social media user’s comments about HB1 visas Friday, and former Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon called him a “toddler” for his response.

The conflict centers on Musk and Ramaswamy’s recent praise for foreign tech workers, beginning soon after Indian immigrant Sriram Krishnan joined the team of Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks. It’s pitted Trump’s tech mogul donor class against his older network of far-right influencers like activist and Trump companion Laura Loomer while escalating into racist rhetoric against Indian Americans in particular.

Trump devotee Laura Loomer says she is paying a price for her criticisms of X owner Elon Musk. In recent days, Loomer and many other MAGA devotees have been criticizing Musk after he said that America needs to import more top-tier engineering talent from other countries because there simply aren't enough American-born engineers talented enough to

Donald Trump’s “best buddy,” South African-born Elon Musk, has endorsed a post on X slamming Americans as “re***ded” workers who can’t hold a candle to skilled foreign hires in Silicon Valley. Musk was responding to a post — using a word widely considered a slur — explaining the difference between the “right right” (whom Trump claims to back) and the “tech right.